In Search of Famine
A film crew comes to a village to make a movie about a famine which killed five million people in 1943. Tensions arise on set, as the actors live a double life and the villages watch their work with wonder and amusement, but as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present.
Starring Dhritiman Chatterjee, Sreela Majumdar, Smita Patil, Biplab Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, Monu Mukherjee, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Satya Banerjee, Gita Sen, Rajen Tarafder
Watch "In Search of Famine" on Mubi released in 1981. It's a drama movie, and has a rating of 7.5 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.